Sentence examples for the first language in from inspiring English sources

Persian was the first language in Muslim civilization to break through Arabic's monopoly on writing.

We recognize Native Americans had the first language in our Country, followed by Western European dialects, with English eventually becoming dominant.

This tiny dorp (village – Afrikaans is the first language in this part of the country) of a couple of hundred fisherman and their families is called Hondeklip Bay.

In these works the date on which the painting was made is meticulously painted in white sans serif text, at the centre of a canvas coated with flat colour, with the month spelled out in the language of the place where it was made (unless the Roman alphabet was not used for the first language, in which case Kawara resorted to Esperanto).

Arabic is the first language in the Arab world, used in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman, Yemen, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and many more countries.

Old Persian is the first language in which the use of saffron in cooking is recorded, with references dating back thousands of years.

Acquiring vocabulary is one of the biggest challenges in learning the second language in Malaysia.

Perhaps Mr. Bush would consider another symbolic gesture, adding Spanish as the third language in United States passports after French.

I hear rapid-fire Spanish as I sip my soup, but when I was a kid the second language in South Beach was Yiddish.

Put it this way: it was on the news the other day that the second language in England is now Polish.

It's like how Arabic is the second language in Somaliland and English is the third, but in truth English is the second language and they don't even really teach Arabic in the schools".